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	Turn Down The Heat The World Bank (2012) CC View PDF(1784) Download (2140) Add to my MEDBOX Why a 4°C warmer world must be avoided Tags: Climate, Ocean Acidification, Sea level rising, Source: http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/de
	Public Health Advice on preventing health effects of heat World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office for Europe (2011) C_WHO View PDF(212) Download (92) Add to my MEDBOX New and updated information. Adverse health effects of hot weather and heat-waves are largely preventable. Prevention requires a portfolio of actions at different levels:from health system preparedness, coordinated with meteorological early warning systems, to timely public and medical advice andimprovements to housing and urban planning. This publication offers detailed information for various target audiences, and on medicaladvice and treatment practice Tags: public health, fact sheet, Climate, heat wave, adverse health effects, risk management, Source: http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pd
	Heat Waves, Floods And The Health Impacts Of Climate Change World Health Organization WHO (2010) C_WHO View PDF(1396) Download (826) Add to my MEDBOX Training Workshop Tags: Training, Source: http://www.who.int/kobe_centre/publicati
	Seniors at risk: Heat and climate change Climate central (2020) C2 View PDF(60) Download (66) Add to my MEDBOX Heat is the top killer among all types of weather hazards, including hurricanes and tornadoes. But hospitals and health care providers do not always report heat-related illnesses or heat as an underlying cause of a death, making it hard to measure the actual impact of extreme heat on health Tags: heat, Climate Change, Older People, Source: https://reliefweb.int/report/world/senio
	World Disasters Report 2020: Come Heat or High Water - Tackling the Humanitarian Impacts of the Climate Crisis Together. Excecutive Summay International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies IFRC (2020) C1 View PDF(37) Download (40) Add to my MEDBOX The failure to protect the people most vulnerable to climate change is especially alarming given the steady increase in the number of climate and weather-related disasters. According to the World Disasters Report, the average number of climate and weather-related disasters per decade has increased nearly 35 per cent since the 1990s. Over the past decade, 83 per cent of all disasters were caused by extreme weather and climate-related events such as floods, storms, and heatwaves. Together, these disasters killed more than 410,000 people and affected a staggering 1.7 billion people Tags: disasters, humanitarian aid, humanitarian work, Climate Change, climate risk management, global impact, humanitarian impact, Natural Disasters, heat wave, floods, Source: https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.in
	Climate change widespread, rapid, and intensifying – IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2021) CC View PDF(11) Download (10) Add to my MEDBOX Press Release for the Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis Available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanisc Tags: Climate Change, heat, simulations, Source: https://www.ipcc.ch/2021/08/09/ar6-wg1-2
	Heatwaves: A Guide for Health-based Actions Pan American Health Organization PAHO (2021) C_WHO View PDF(13) Download (13) Add to my MEDBOX This publication presents a comprehensive methodology to support the Member States of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in preparing for and responding to heat-health risks in the Region of the Americas. It builds on World Health Organization and the World Meteorological Organization global documents, as well as on the disaster preparedness methodologies employed throughout the countries of the Region. This publication is part of an effort coordinated by PAHO to support Member States in multihazard preparedness, and includes: early warning system strengthening; threat characterization; activation and deactivation procedure definition; and institutional coordination. It engages different disciplines and recognizes the importance of intersectoral collaboration to respond to heat-health risks. It aims to bring awareness of the impacts of heat on the health of people of the Americas to public health decisionmakers, and thereby strengthen health service provision Tags: planetary health, Climate Change, climate crisis, heat wave, Source: https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/549
	Extreme heat can impact our health in many ways Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2021) C_CDC View PDF(16) Download (16) Add to my MEDBOX Tags: Extreme heat and health, Health and climate change, preventive measures, United States, Leaflet, Source: https://www.cdc.gov/climateandhealth/pub
	Effects of Heat National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (2022) CC Open external link (77) Add to my MEDBOX Tags: heat, Climate, health, effects, Source: https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/progr
	Heat Waves: Health Effects, Observed Trends and Climate Change Martínez-Austria Polioptro,F and Bandala E. R (2018) CC View PDF(7) Download (6) Add to my MEDBOX DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.75559 In book: Extreme WeatherPublisher: IntechOpen Tags: heat wave, Impact, health, Climate Change, Source: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pol

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